UAV Operator, Maneuver Dominance
$113,000–$155,000 year
On-site · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Job Summary
UAV Operator for Maneuver Dominance in Anduril's Technical Operations on autonomy-enabled UAVs; role involves standing up forward-deployed operations in austere environments, ensuring combat employment of products, supporting vehicle autonomy development, test events, and customer demonstrations; needs extensive field/operational experience, defense background, flight operations knowledge, system/sensor understanding, data-driven problem solving, cross-functional collaboration, and willingness for up to 80% travel; requires ability to obtain/maintain active U.S. Top Secret clearance.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive hands-on (field operations, manufacturing, or test) technical experience
- Prior military or defense contractor experience as a manned or unmanned pilot/operator, Network technician, or Crew Chief/maintainer (Avionics, GNC, Electrical)
- Demonstrated understanding of flight operations, aircraft systems, and sensors
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems in unstructured situations at the interface of hardware, software, and operations in pursuit of mission success
- Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams and external customers; demonstrated ability to collect differing opinions and reconcile them in order to achieve agreement on what ‘right’ looks like
- Experience performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems using logs as a source of truth
- Intermediate to advanced understanding and experience for some or all of the following: Computers; terminal environment, server management, programming languages (e.g. Python, Rust, MATLAB); IP Networking; Radios; MANET, SATCOM, Backhaul systems
- Demonstrated ability to train peers or customers on the operation of a product
- Must have prior, operationally relevant, deployment experience
- Willingness to travel up to 80% including occasional deployments for up to two months at a time
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S.Top Secret security clearance
- Able to meet health and medical requirements in advance of deployments in accordance with DFARS 252.225-7040, DoDI 3020.41, and/or any additional requirements outlined by region or supporting force, as applicable.
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